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Offshore photovoltaics: SolarDuck builds floating PV station

Offshore photovoltaics: SolarDuck builds floating PV station

Gepostet von | 19 Dec 2022 | , | 0

How - you don't have a solar duck for your bathtub yet? Not even for Christmas? Then it's about time - otherwise you'll miss out on the trend! In mid-November, the Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck announced plans to build the world's largest photovoltaic power plant off the Dutch coast. The 5 MW demonstrator is due to be connected to the grid in 2026 and will have an innovative energy storage unit. RWE secured the "Hollandse Kust West (HKW) VII" sea area for future energy generation plants in the middle of the year and has now selected SolarDuck as the manufacturer of the plants. Wind turbines and floating panels The hybrid offshore wind and floating panel project will utilise this technology, which has so far been little tested in real...

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Blue helmet corvette "Erfurt" back in Warnemünde - with 230 days at sea under her belt

Blue helmet corvette "Erfurt" back in Warnemünde - with 230 days at sea under her belt

Gepostet von | 16 Dec 2022 | , , , | 1

230 days of absence: Corvette Erfurt back in home port The corvette Erfurt is back in home port after 230 days of absence. Today, Sunday 18 December, the German Navy's last homecoming arrived in its home port. The crew, led by Corvette Captain Dohnke, has completed the approximately 4,000 nautical mile transit from the Levant to the Bay of Mecklenburg and is back in Warnemünde in time for Christmas. The corvette Erfurt originally left Warnemünde in February 2022 and was intended for the mandated deployment under the UN flag. The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine necessitated a change at short notice, so that...

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Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge

Mobile phone at the helm and WhatsApp on the bridge

Gepostet von | 16 Dec 2022 | , , | 1

The 20,000 TEU container freighter "Ever Given", wedged diagonally into the embankment in the Suez Canal with the prominent white inscription of the shipping company EVERGREEN (Taiwan) on the frog-green side of the ship, is still a fond memory for anyone involved in shipping. Less spectacular and also having a much smaller impact on international goods traffic was an accident that occurred on 13 March 2022 to the "Ever Forward", a container ship from Hong Kong with a capacity of 11,850 TEU, which was also unmistakably labelled EVERGREEN, after a missed course change before entering Norfolk/Virginia: it ran squarely into the really sticky silt of the Chesapeake Bay at full speed and was unable to...

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Three stowaways on the rudder blade

Three stowaways on the rudder blade

Gepostet von | 14 Dec 2022 | , , | 0

It's a Christmas story - but unfortunately it's true! At the end of November, a Spanish coastguard patrol in the harbour of Las Palmas/Gran Canaria recovered three male refugees in very poor condition from the top of the rudder blade of a tanker and admitted them to hospital. No wonder - they had been clinging to the "Alithini II" for twelve days on the 2,700-mile journey from Lagos/Nigeria. It is actually incredible that they were not caught by a wave and disappeared unnoticed forever. The three are now on the road to recovery. But...

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Double baptism for Singapore in Kiel

Double baptism for Singapore in Kiel

Gepostet von | 14 Dec 2022 | , , , | 0

It is certainly not the first ship christening for the former First Mayor of Hamburg. Today, Olaf Scholz attended the christening of two submarines as Federal Chancellor. In front of 350 guests, Ho Ching, the wife of the Singaporean Prime Minister, christened the submarines "Impeccable" and "Illustrious". The pair are build numbers two and three of four type 218SG submarines being built by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) for the Singapore Ministry of Defence. tkMS submarine family for Singapore expands Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who greeted the naming ceremony with a 'Moin-Moin', referred in his speech to the German Chancellor's recent visit to Singapore...

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